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The United States White House has developed Project Open Data to encourage government agencies to share and produce opendata.
According the Project:

The White House developed Project Open Data – this collection of code, tools, and case studies – to help agencies adopt the Open Data Policy and unlock the potential of government data.

Here are some other materials in the Project.

Standards

Open Data Licenses

Tools

Data Formats

Case Studies

Other Resources

Best of all, the entire project is available on GitHub and contributions are welcomed.

I would love to see other organizations start to do similar things. Some organizations, such as Rackspace, have created support around open source coding projects. However, I am unaware of organizations doing things to standardize and encourage the sharing of opendata.

Does any know of any organizations working to create policies for releasing opendata? If so, please leave a comment.

NIH will make 200TB of human genetic variation data freely available on Amazon Web Services

NSF will provide $2M in support of undergraduate education for studying graphical and visualization techniques of bigdata

DoD will announce some prize competitions in the coming months

Numerous other projects to increase data analysis across the US Government

Here is one note I did find interesting (or funny). One of the speakers mentioned the need for workers with bigdata skills. He mentioned the workforce needs 159,000 workers with data skills. Then a couple minutes later he mention a need for data savvy managers. He mentioned the workforce will need 1,500,000 managers with data knowledge. I just thought those 2 numbers did not match up well.

Here are a few more links to other articles summarizing the Research Initiative: